Bio of La Rue, George S. (b.1851) Wabasha Co., MN
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La Rue, George S., the druggist, bookseller and grocer of Plainview,
Minnesota, came and, with his parents, settled about two miles west of the
present village in the year 1861. He is a native of Canada, where he was
born in the year 1851, and whence, while young, he was by removal of his
parents taken to Wisconsin. Here in Dodge county, near Waupun, he attended
public school, and at the age of ten years moved westward to his present
place of business. His business life was commenced as apprentice in drugs
to T. G. Bolton, the pioneer druggist of Plainview, with whom he continued
for a year and a-half, until, associating with himself some leading
members of the community, he was enabled to buy out his boss, in common
parlance, and assume the responsibility of the business of the new house
under the firm name of G. S. La Rue & Co. This he continued successfully,
and sold out his interest in 1878 to Goddard & Co., to enter as partner
with Amerland in the banking business under the firm of Amerland & La Rue,
bankers. At the end of eighteen months he disposed of this interest to
Judge Wording, for the purpose of re-entering in 1880 his former line of
drugs, which he did by purchasing stock and fixtures of Goddard & Co.,
which he now conducts with energy and ability, rendering to every customer
a proper equivalent for all monetary exchanges. Mr. La Rue enjoys the full
rights of the order of A.F.A.M., and a growing reputation for excellence
in goods and square dealing in trade. He was married in Elgin, Minnesota,
to Mary D. Woodruff, of that place, and has one daughter, born April 15,
1881.